Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, though the U.S. will maintain a lead in submarine-launched missiles, 656 to 300. Expressing dismay over the Soviet buildup, Nixon pledges that the U.S. will enhance its own security by going ahead with the Safeguard ABM program. Oddly, there is no mention of continuation of U.S. testing of multiple-warhead offense missiles, possibly because the U.S. hopes to discuss controls on the numbers of such weapons when the second round of arms-limitation talks gets under way in Vienna April...
...believe we are in a critical stage in the escalating arms race," Lee Grodzins, professor of Physics at M. I. T. and UCS chairman, said yesterday. "If ABM is funded now, it will probably mean that the whole system will be built...
Grodzins said that the two-day program-Tuesday at Sanders Theatre and Wednesday at M. I. T.'s Kresge Auditorium-will focus on the ABM (anti-ballistic missile) and CBW (chemical-biological warfare) as problems of arms control...
...must continue the efforts begun last year to bring a real understanding of the issues to our fellow citizens and our Congress," Wiesner said in a recent public address. "You must all help with this. Stop MIRV and ABM...
...anti-ballistic-missile program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...